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11% of Americans like the idea...

A poll released this week by Zogby International and 463 Communications indicates that 11% of Americans would be okay with implanting a device in their head that allowed them to directly access the Internet.

We're sure the latency is amazing, but is Comcast or AT&T going to charge us skull-chip rental costs and cerebral regulatory recovery fees? Additional strange factoids (did you know 25% of Americans think the Internet could be a substitute for a significant other for some period of time?) are available here.

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The Laughing Man

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Hope your firewall is updated...
Piller
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Re: Skull Jack

That's funny, I'll bet most IP users when they were told they have some packet loss due to Near End Cross Talk would look around for "The Great Gazoo" on their shoulder.

supergirl
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Yes

The Internet has been cited in lots of divorce case since AOL got revved up.

Actually, a more interesting project involved DARPA using a headset so the wearer could experience anything recorded as their own. The movie Brainstorm was based on that project that supposedly works. The DOD has continued the research into the brain via such connections. Imagine learning a whole college degree in a couple of days? The movie The Matrix had a similar product when people "jacked in".
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Re: Yes

said by supergirl:

The Matrix had a similar product when people "jacked in".
Check out some books by William Gibson to see where the Matrix writers got some of their inspiration from.
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Wait.. Darpa? DOD? Government messing with the brain?? That's ok, but gene therapy and stem cell research isn't? It's ok to f*ck with life, just not make it better and healthier. Oh.. wait.. that's right.. this government profits off sick people as well as knowing the thoughts of people. :P I'm back now.
krayzie bone
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Re: Yes

couldn't have said it better

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That's like comparing poking around in a consenting adults brain and chopping up aborted fetuses and sucking their juices out.

Healbot
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Re: Yes

said by james16:

That's like comparing poking around in a consenting adults brain and chopping up aborted fetuses and sucking their juices out.
couldn't have said it better
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We are Borg.

I'm there.

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Re: Yes

said by xenophon:

We are Borg.
And here will be the typical internet installation technician at work:



And you can get your brain chips online:
»www.cyborg.com.hr/web-it ··· hp?id=31

Note: this is a web site made to get people thinking about cyborgs and the ethics involved. It isn't real.


Edrick
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Yeah...

No thanks, I'm all for technology but I don't need a direct link to it via my brain. Just what I need Norton Anti Virus Brain Edition.

As far as the internet replacing a significant other, they need lives unless its like a virtual world and feels real to you in which case I can only imagine what sites like that would cost.

PolarBear03
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Re: Yeah...

Second Life. Not too expensive, either.

Ben
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Re: Yeah...

said by PolarBear03:

Second Life. Not too expensive, either.
Second Life is for those who don't have a first life. Technology is fascinating but there's more to life than that.

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Re: Yeah...

said by Ben:

said by PolarBear03:

Second Life. Not too expensive, either.
Second Life is for those who don't have a first life. Technology is fascinating but there's more to life than that.
Oh, I agree. I was just suggesting a real world item to correlate with the concept that Ricky Smith referred to.

I only looked at the Second Life website once; I thought "oooh, what a great idea... but... if you are spending your life in an online world, then what happens to.... ok, I'm shutting my computer off now..."
firewire9999
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Hmmm couple important things to include

1) FBI/NSA will need a back door into your chip implant (save us from the bad guys).

2) Congress will need to levi new taxes on it.

3) Someone will need to invest a B2B (Brain 2 Brain network for sharing files/thoughts)

4) If you have problems with your implant chip. You will need to "think" (not call) to India for support.

5) Will need a good firewall / ant-virus thing. Don't want hackers turning your Brain into a Zombie Bot Brain.

6) Pr0n industry will make the implant chip very popular.


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Re: Hmmm couple important things to include

said by firewire9999:

1) FBI/NSA will need a back door into your chip implant (save us from the bad guys).

2) Congress will need to levi new taxes on it.

3) Someone will need to invest a B2B (Brain 2 Brain network for sharing files/thoughts)

4) If you have problems with your implant chip. You will need to "think" (not call) to India for support.

5) Will need a good firewall / ant-virus thing. Don't want hackers turning your Brain into a Zombie Bot Brain.

6) Pr0n industry will make the implant chip very popular.

No it would stell be p2p (peer to peer)
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Don't forgot the Universal Service Fee to provide a brain proxy for those disadvantaged individuals whose brain cannot except the chip. And once the fund is established, the inevitable reports of misuse such as those with a successful implants misappropriating funds to obtain proxy lap dances.

PolarBear03
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I'll start small

I think I'll start out with the Bluetooth chip implanted in my eardrum, then see how things go from there...
Joe12345678
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This sounds like something from Johnny Mnemonic

This sounds like something from Johnny Mnemonic

Kilroy
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Proving 11% of Americans don't think

Don't they bother to think these things through? I think this falls into the sounded like a good idea at the time category. Once you start thinking about what it would take and what the consequences (sorry forgot that in America "it's not my fault") would be. You think cell phone drives are bad, just think how well the jacked in would drive.

Rogue Wolf
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Re: Proving 11% of Americans don't think

I'm sincerely hoping that, by the time we have computer chips able to interface reliably with the human brain, we'll also have cars with AI autopilots.

Not that people wouldn't find a way to screw that up, too....

NormanS
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Re: Proving 11% of Americans don't think

Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, diving while driving. Ghost in the Shell, Stand Alone Complex. Can't remember if it was 2nd Gig.

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No way would I want some chip near my brain and neither should anyone else. Most Americans are sheep and slaves to pop culture as it is...but an could you imagine the field day the MegaCorps would have with their "marketing" tactics???? POP-UPs appearing before your retinas...audio wav files playing in your sleep "Buy your Abercrombie/Hollister/Gap/Old Navy Pullover now before Christmas..."

OH dear lord!

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What About My Tinfoil Hat???

I still need my tinfoil hat to protect me from Nuclear EMP, Cell Phone Towers, My Dinner Cooking in the Microwave Oven, and the Alien Death Rays, if the chip is in my head, the tinfoil would probably cause frequent Internet outages.

Crap, Zogby, please change my answer back to Very Unlikely.

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Re: What About My Tinfoil Hat???

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· b12Qf4k8

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Interesting

what would comcast do to those people who exceed their ever changing data limits? shut down your brain?

oh and imagine what fun one can have while being filtered with sandvine..


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Re: Interesting

said by beerbum:

what would comcast do to those people who exceed their ever changing data limits? shut down your brain?
The "non-returned". Oshii Mamoru's "Avalon".

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survey also reveals

that 11 percent of Americans polled are total morons.

oh....zogby...i thot u sed zippy. lol now repeat after me..." i am sofa king wee todd did"

N3OGH
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Do the Feds need a search warrant?

So, with every alphabet federal agency have access to a back door built into it?

I think I'll pass. I'm a big fan of keeping my inner most thoughts private...

Yauch
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25% of Americans...

...think the Internet could be a substitute for a significant other.

Only 1/4? I thought this has been common knowledge for all geeks for quite some time.

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Re: 25% of Americans...

said by Yauch:

...think the Internet could be a substitute for a significant other.

Only 1/4? I thought this has been common knowledge for all geeks for quite some time.
OH MY GOD 25% of all Americans??? That's like 75 Million people...

The Internet is a CyberPolygamist

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1/4 of the population are socially impaired geeks? Things are getting bad. We used to be more exclusive.

Cue the list of reasons why the net is better than a man/woman.
mworks
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The new wifi ?

So I was brain linked with Joe friday night and do you know what he thought ?

I can't believe a guy like him could imagine things like that , let alone think them in public !

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all ready done..

»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· i_F3zQQQ

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They aint all their is they ?

Imagine having to go through a service call, because your having a problem with your connection. LOL
wtansill
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Say what?

They only substitute the Internet intermittently???
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Right To Your Brain

What OS would you use? Can you imagine the field day the spyware companies would have? What if you got turned into a zombie? Suppose someone got a rootkit in your brain? You'd never get it out.

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No kidding, reloading from scratch would be a little problematic.
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Feed anyone

Sounds just like the book feed!

»www.commonsensemedia.org ··· eed.html

Hope that does not happen in my life time.
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Error

As the police are standing over your body "Looks like we got ourselves another BSOD, bag em up."
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Monty Python's "New Brain" skit?

Don't ask too many questions or it'll get hot.
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